To win the Republican nomination, Mr. Cruz will have to bring together the party’s anti-establishment wing, which is made of separate-but-overlapping voter blocs, including Christian conservatives, libertarians and Tea Party voters angry with the leadership of both parties. His ultimate goal is to get into a one-on-one campaign against whoever emerges as the favorite of […]

Senator Ted Cruz of Texas announced on Monday morning that he would run for president in 2016, becoming the first Republican candidate to declare himself officially in the race. Linking the determination of his immigrant father with the resolve of the founding fathers and his own faith in “the promise of America,” Mr. Cruz spoke […]

The Ferguson Police Department (FPD) arrested 460 individuals for outstanding warrants between October 2012 and October 2014: 96% of those arrested were African American. According to the DOJ report, from 2011-2013, African Americans accounted for 95% of Manner of Walking in Roadway charges, 94% of Failure to Comply charges, 92% of Resisting Arrest charges, 92% […]

After Tuesday’s big cave on amnesty, with more than two-thirds of his own caucus opposing the bill he brought to the floor, it’s really the least Democrats can do. John Boehner, Democratic Speaker of the House. Democrats from across an ideological spectrum say they’d rather see Boehner remain atop the House than replace him with […]

She says she’s interested in running for president, but Sarah Palin is not backing that interest up with action… “I see no activity, no hires, no grassroots, and there is no structure to the volunteer organization for Palin that existed four years ago,” said Craig Bergman, a Republican consultant who worked with the Organize4Palin group […]

He and Rubio are the only two top-tier candidates I thought might pass on the race, and the only reason I thought Rubio would skip it is if Jeb Bush snapped up all the political talent in Florida for his own run. Cruz, I imagined, might pass simply because he can afford to play the […]

When asked earlier in the week who would get to speak aboard that perfect venue [the USS Midway] – a grand seagoing symbol of America’s military might — an RNC official told The Washington Times no speaker was scheduled. There would be just a band for the reception for members, guest and donors. Just as […]

The GOP field is in pygmy warlord phase—loud, fractured, and not terribly impressive. The most credible candidate is Jeb Bush, a far-sighted policy wonk whose greatest asset and liability is his last name. Powerhouse Chris Christie still has Bridgegate clouds hovering over his reputation. Rand Paul promises to bring the libertarian revolution to prime time […]

A terrible thought: What if he’s right? What if the bar set by his predecessors in Congress was so low that the Boehner era has actually raised it? Don’t laugh, says James Antle. The man’s got a case. Yes, even against Newt Gingrich: The Knack had one good album, the Gingrich Congress had two, maybe […]

Former Gov. Jeb Bush of Florida was blunt Monday night: If he runs for president in 2016, he will not pander to his party’s conservative base in the primaries. Mr. Bush said at The Wall Street Journal’s CEO Council in Washington that Republican candidates must be willing to “lose the primary to win the general, […]

More than a dozen Republican governors and senators are rushing to line up supporters, pore over policies and map out strategies for the 2016 presidential campaign, concluding that last week’s midterm rout of Democrats shows that the GOP has a strong chance of taking back the White House… “Tuesday night certainly gives the Republicans a […]

On Tuesday, Oscar Alfaro and his wife, Enriqueta, received a rare piece of good news: Their daughter Jelin, 15, had been granted temporary legal status under President Obama’s “dreamer” policy, which offered half a million young illegal immigrants protection from deportation for two years. On Friday, the Alfaros joined scores of other illegal immigrants at […]

To be clear, this is the first major Republican endorsement of 2016. A few big-name Democrats, like Tim Kaine and Claire McCaskill, are already busily kissing Hillary’s ass to atone for having supported Obama early in the 2008 primaries. Almost as if they think the Clintons are bitter grudge-holders who’ll be eager to retaliate against […]

]]>http://hotair.com/archives/2014/11/07/first-major-endorsement-of-2016-mitch-mcconnell-backing-rand-paul-for-president/feed/71Instant classic: Al Sharpton repeats whatever a conservative just said in the form of a questionhttp://hotair.com/archives/2014/10/14/instant-classic-al-sharpton-repeats-whatever-a-conservative-just-said-in-the-form-of-a-question/
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"Really?"

To cleanse the palate, this one’s too funny to disappear into our endless Headlines churn. The guy responsible is David Rutz of the Free Beacon, who likes to remind America sporadically that the man occupying MSNBC’s 6 p.m. “news hour” slot spends zero time preparing for his show. Someone with an ounce of dignity, who […]

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) has come in first in the Values Voter Summit presidential straw poll for the second year running. Receiving 25 percent of the votes cast, down from 42 percent in 2013, Cruz was the favorite for the 2016 Republican president nomination among the 2,000 social conservatives activists at the conference… Tony Perkins, […]

A perfect complement to last week’s “Romney 2016?” migraine-starter. For the first time in the tea-party era, conservatives will have someone on the primary ballot who could galvanize enough voters to win the nomination. The donor class is wetting itself thinking that that might be the same guy they blame for the shutdown last year. […]

]]>http://hotair.com/archives/2014/09/29/ted-cruz-advisor-on-2016-at-this-point-its-9010-hes-in-and-honestly-90-is-lowballing-it/feed/230Rubio: If I had to vote again on my Gang of Eight immigration bill, I’d vote nohttp://hotair.com/archives/2014/08/28/rubio-if-i-had-to-vote-again-on-my-gang-of-eight-immigration-bill-id-vote-no/
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Meh.

I hope you guys appreciate how hard he’s been pandering to you lately. Because he’s pandering awfully hard. This reminds me of the debate before the 2012 primaries got rolling over whether Romney should repudiate RomneyCare. Lots of righties said yes, definitely. He’s got to get that monkey off his back; otherwise he’ll be vulnerable […]

]]>http://hotair.com/archives/2014/08/28/rubio-if-i-had-to-vote-again-on-my-gang-of-eight-immigration-bill-id-vote-no/feed/177Audio: And now a word from Mike Ditka about this Redskins “horsesh*t”http://hotair.com/archives/2014/08/20/audio-and-now-a-word-from-mike-ditka-about-this-redskins-horsesht/
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"We’re going to let the liberals of the world run this world."

I can’t say this counts as news-y — the guy’s a self-described “ultra-ultra-ultra-conservative” and Palin fan so go figure that he’s impatient with political correctness — but it sure is red-meat-y and palate cleanse-y. After listening to it, I’m almost inclined to forgive him for refusing to blow up Obama’s political career on the launchpad […]

]]>http://hotair.com/archives/2014/08/20/audio-and-now-a-word-from-mike-ditka-about-this-redskins-horsesht/feed/89Bad news from Rob Reiner: Like Hamas, the tea party must be eliminatedhttp://hotair.com/archives/2014/08/15/rob-reiner-like-hamas-the-tea-party-must-be-eliminated/
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"[A]nytime you’re dealing with an extreme group, you cannot negotiate with them."

Via CNS, alternate headline: “Blogger’s enjoyment of ‘Spinal Tap’ forever compromised.” For what it’s worth, he wants tea partiers eliminated at the polls, not by airstrikes, but we’ll check back with him in 2016 in case Ted Cruz gets elected president. Four years ago he fretted on Bill Maher’s show that the tea party was […]

The left is out in force making sure that everyone knows they don’t really listen to conservative or libertarian arguments, but are happy enough to summarize them inaccurately. “I don’t see anybody from the libertarian or Republican movement who talk about small government and overstepping American citizens’ rights coming either on camera or social media […]

“Let’s say Ron Paul is Nirvana,” said Kennedy, the television personality and former MTV host, by way of explaining the sort of politician who excites libertarians like herself. “Like, the coolest, most amazing thing to come along in years, and the songs are nebulous but somehow meaningful, and the lead singer kills himself to preserve […]

To cleanse the palate at the end of a long, grim week. The name of the show didn’t ring a bell when I watched the clip but then I saw this blog post on the official site and remembered. Frank Rich did indeed mention it back in May in his piece on whether conservatives can […]

While Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul has not officially declared a bid for the White House in 2016, his presidential ambitions were on full display here as he traveled across the first-in-the-nation caucus state. Paul kicked off a three-day swing thru Iowa on Monday, taking him to eight different cities along the way and several fundraisers […]

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“So we don't need to worry about alien teRrorists. It's our own crazies that will take us down.”

I’m as surprised as you are. Who could have guessed that someone who “joked” about working for OFA might not like grassroots righties? There’s an important lesson to be learned here, my friends. When you’re arranging for your hard drive to be “scratched,” make sure it’s scratched deeply enough that stuff like this can’t be […]

The good folks at Reason did their best to frame the data here as proof that young adults are skeptics of government at heart, but skim through the major findings and decide for yourself. Millennials do have some right-wing leanings, of course — they’re open in principle to cutting taxes and spending, prefer to see […]